My name is Tina Roth Eisenberg. I am a 'swiss designer gone NYC'. swissmiss is my visual archive of things that 'make me look'. I am a graphic designer and run my own studio in Brooklyn. Contact me if you would like to team up, have a link suggestion or just want to say hello: submissions {at} swiss-miss.com.

Stina Persson, one of my favorite illustrator, pointed me to one of her upcoming shows in California. Gallery Nucleus is organizing a show called LA FEMME which hopes to showcase and celebrate women in art.

The publisher types describe Ray Fenwick's Hall of Best Knowledge as "part graphic novel, part art object, part satire, part puzzle. The slow unfolding of the author and his story builds humor with each page, creating a peculiar examination of the idea of genius and the problems that arise in the search and transmission of knowledge."

"Plane Jane" is a world created by Delaney Jane Larson. Primarily working with gouache, ink, and collage, she concocts curios ruled by nonsense, love, unexpected reveries, and wishes. Myriad peculiar creatures and charming beasts live in simple spaces, where they find themselves in absurd situations. She uses familiar iconography as a language for the characters, and employs a limited color palette to counterbalance the situational idiosyncrasies. White creates simple dreamscapes and evokes a childlike innocence.

Daniela Kohl, an illustrator based in Munich and friend from my university days emailed me about her current exhibit called "Les Vacances". I have been a fan of Daniela's style every since I saw her do her magic sitting next to me in drawing class. Congratulations DK!

I bought The Hairy Monster, a guide, by Tom Gauld about 2 years ago and FINALLY got around to get it framed. It looks fantastic! I am so happy to finally have it prominently displayed in our living room. One of the guys at my favorite Brooklyn frameshop, Thoren, totally fell in love with it and asked where I got it from. I managed to look it up but I am sorry to see they're sold out. So here's my master plan: Everyone who's as much in love with this quite amusing 7 images booklet about a hairy monster, should send Tom and email and ask him to print another run. We all should have 7 images related to the hairy monster (Front, Possesions, Bone Structure, Diet, Organs, Droppings and Rear) displayed in our homes. Hairy monster knowledge might come in handy one day....

UPDATE: Heard from Tom: I'm not going to reprint the Hairy Monster Guide as it is, the work will probably reappear in a collection of my minicomics at some point. I don't think it's fair on the people who bought the original limited version if I make more of them.

Serge Bloch is a contributing illustrator to several US publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, GQ, The Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Scholastic, National Geographic Magazine and France Amerique: "A page of newspaper is like a wall of a gallery that hundreds of thousands of people can visit without being afraid to enter. You can be on a train, in bed or on a bench in the sun. But the exhibit is ephemeral because the following day, it's gone. It's become a piece of paper used to dry your boots or to peel vegetables". Serge enjoys doing humorous work, and refers to it as a work of modest art.

Melinda Beck is an illustrator and graphic designer living in Brooklyn. Anyone having a little toddler and watching Noggin, like us, all the time, is very well familiar with her work as she did beautiful animated tv spots for the Noggin network. Love her style.

I picked up 365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental, at the MoMA store on saturday and found myself laughing out loud while reading it to our little Ella.

This hilarious, oversize picture book integrates challenging math concepts and environmental concerns into a clever narrative. On New Year's Day, a family receives an anonymous package containing a penguin. The young narrator chases the bird around the house as it runs amok and knocks over lamps and furniture. His sister, Amy, finds a note, I'm number 1. Feed me when I'm hungry. Just as the message implies, there are more to come; by the end of the year, 365 in all. Penguins, penguins everywhere. As they arrive, readers must recall the number of days in each month–by the end of February, they are calculating the number of penguins in all. Then Father decides to organize them, first into four groups of 15, later in boxes by the dozen, and, finally, into a cubic formation. By summer, the heat, noise, and smell are unbearable. On New Year's Eve, ecologist Uncle Victor arrives and the mystery is solved. The engaging story is illustrated in a flat retro design with a palette dominated by orange, blue, gray, and black and white. The comical birds watch TV, dance with their teenage sister, and eat everything in sight. The text provides endless opportunities for word problems, and units on penguins and global warming will never be the same.
–Barbara Auerbach, New York City Public Schools

I found Ray's sketches a LONG time ago on flickr and have been a fan ever since. It actually hade us meet up and trade some of our pieces. (Thank you flickr for connecting me with such creative people!) She just now opened a shop where she sells some of her most popular sketchbook spreads as well her "Book within a Book". YAY!